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How to remove (uninstall) Caster

Advertising-oriented software, such as Caster is extremely diffused recent months. Such programs differ from normal viruses in that their doing can’t be identified as certainly harmful. In the description of Caster you'll see much of useful capabilities, but are they worth? If malware will dwell in your system for a week or more you'll see, that it isn't really worthy, and will try to uninstall it. But, Caster can restore itself after the disposal. In this article, we are going to explain you everything about Caster, how to dispose it, and how to prevent infection in the future.

The dangerous programs which show you banners and prevent to surf the Net can be separated on two groups: adware and hijackers. Adware attack the whole computer, showing you hype and advertisements on each new tab in browser and on the desktop. The group № 2 acts only in the browsers by substituting the search results, providing improper output and redirecting you to malicious web-sites. All of these series of viruses are accompanied with explicit descriptions of their options, and the customer supposes that they are useful. But, the longer you use Caster, the more unstable will be the condition of your PC. In the end, you'll realize that the workstation is totally filled by various strange, hazardous or even really dangerous programs. Spontaneous shutdowns, fatal errors, the poor performance of the PC, low speed of response and restarts will become very frequent. When the workstation comes into such state, customers start looking for a solution, and realize that it was necessary to delete the malware at the beginning, or do not install it at all.

After the infection Caster performs a series of things aimed at security against removal, as well as to prepare for action. This is a complement of measures aimed at protection against removal. Thereafter virus begins to change the settings of browsers. When the pre-set search engine and the homepage are changed, you'll always see the suspicious web-site in any browser and on any tab. Then, adware changes your browser controls, related to advertising. All prevalent browsers now have a function which hides the pop-ups, banners, undesired ads and other sorts of hype. The undesired software disables these functions, and you understand that the amount of advertising in all browsers is dramatically increased. In addition, to that the amount of advertisement has increased noticeably, its quality became really low. If the hijacker dwells on the laptop for some time, customer just can't surf the Net because of hype, banners and redirections in browser and sometimes even to boot the machine. Why is this done? The essence of such actions is to coerce you to pass the links shown by the hijacker. Viral links frequently lead to suspicious web-pages that sell substandard products, or services. Such sites simply aren't visited by anyone aside from their owners, and they have only one way out: to drag visitors to the web-page with use of deception. Any endeavor to download some stuff from this web-site will summon serious issues. As you can see, Caster don't cause harm on its own, and it only gives the possibility to do things which will summon problems.

We expect that you, after the reading of the "What is" part, understood the necessity for complete disposal of hijacker from your workstation. But there's no have to hurry, you must understand all removal techniques until you start. Deletion might be performed manually or using anti-viral tool. These techniques are dependable, certified, and lead to effective removal of any adware. The diversity between them lies not in the effectiveness, but in easiness and the level of security. Foremost, the disposal in manual manner needs more skill. During by-hand uninstall you will have to delete the program itself, to clear the browsers from undesired add-ons, put its settings to their original condition and delete some registry values. Such actions are pretty simple for the skilled user, but if you're reading this – you, most likely can't get rid of Caster and you demand some support. Underneath this paragraph you'll see the itemized list of advices, and the video guide about the deletion of Caster. But don't forget that anti-virus is the best option for newbies. Disposal through special software is noticeably easier than deletion in manual manner and there is no risk of failure. In addition, you won't simply clean your machine from adware, but also create the defense from such threats in the future. Nowadays, the best anti-viral tool according to the price/quality ratio is Spyhunter, and we advise you to buy it. This AV-tool is well-known in many countries, and ensures continuous security. Spyhunter uses daily updated virus database, it does not consume lots of CPU resources and doesn't interfere with other anti-viral software.

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Caster removal instructions

Windows 7 and Windows XP

1. Uninstall Caster from Control Panel

Start

Control Panel

Programs

Programs and Features

Uninstall a program

Select Caster and press Uninstall

2. Delete elements that stayed after uninstalling from Control Panel

C:\Program Files\Caster

C:\ProgramData\Caster

C:\Users\YOUR_USER\AppData\Roaming\Caster

3. Clean registry:

Click Start

Type Regedit.exe

Search for "Caster" and delete these elements

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How to remove Caster from Windows 10

1. On the field Search Windows type 'Control Panel'

2. Click Uninstall a program

3. Select Caster and press Uninstall

How to uninstall from Windows 8

1. Point to the upper-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer down, and tap Search.

2. Enter control panel in the search box, and then click Control Panel.

3. Under View by:, select Large Icons, and then click Programs and features.

4. Click the program, and then click Uninstall.

5. Follow the instructions on the screen.

6. Delete Caster from Control Panel

Start

Control Panel

Programs

Programs and Features

Uninstall a program

Select Caster and press Uninstall

7. Remove elements like on Win7.

How to uninstall Caster from Mac OS

1. Click Applications in the Finder sidebar

2. Drag unwanted program to the Trash

3. Empty Trash

Step 2. Remove Caster from the browser

How to remove Caster from Internet Explorer

Step 1. Disable add-on:

Tools

Manage add-ons

Remove Caster

Step 2.Change homepage:

Tools

Internet Options

General

Home page

Put “about:blank”

Step 3. Change new tab page:

Tools

Internet Options

General

Tabs

How to delete Caster from Google Chrome

Step 1. Remove add-on:

Customize and Control Google Chrome

Tools

Extensions

Remove Caster

Step 2. Change homepage:

Customize and Control Google Chrome

Settings

On startup

Set pages

Put “about:blank”

How to uninstall Caster from Mozilla Firefox

Step 1. Delete add-on:

Tools

Add-ons

Remove Caster

Step 2. Change homepage:

Tools

Options

General

Put “about:blank” into homepage field

Step 3. Change new tab page:

Put “about:config” into address bar;

Confirm the suggestion;

Search for “browser.newtab.url”;

Reset this field (right-click and choose reset).

How to delete Caster from Opera browser

Step 1. Disable add-on:

Open Opera;

Customize and Control Opera;

Extensions;

Choose Caster and press button "Remove from Opera"

Step 2. Change homepage:

Open Opera browser;

Customize and Control Opera;

Settings;

On Startup;

Open a specific page or set of pages;

Press button "Set pages" and change Homepage to your favorite one.

How to delete Caster from Safari

Step 1. Start Safari browser

Step 2. Display a menu of General Safari Settings

Step 3. Reset Safari...

Step 4. Press "Reset"

Video how to reset browser and remove all extensions

Advantages of different removal methods

How to protect the computer?

There is one important thing that you need to understand about computer virus: how not to let it enter your computer. Viruses use plenty of ways, but we'll assort them on three main groups:

Download from a suspicious website. There are web-sites, which distribute the adware and they don't even try to hide it. The functions of such tools are ordinary, they are: acting download of all drivers and updates for your gear, the fulfillment of certain tasks in the social networks, the enhancement of Web surfing, providing the information about best deals on the Internet, showing the newest unpaid media-content such as movies, music and games. Every such feature is already integrated into the browsers, or present in the Windows tools list, so, it means that these tools are just worthless, and the site, which distributes them is, probably, dangerous.

Hijackers might be attached to worthy software. If you often use the unpaid tools, you know what we are talking about. You install the program, and in one of the windows you see the proposal to get the miraculous media player, antivirus, browser, the additional extension for it, and, maybe, few different weird, but very "useful" tools. The installation is already verified, and if you click "OK", the installation starts, and you’ll earn 4-5 trashy tools, instead of needed one.

Sometimes user installs adware by his own will. It is highly possible, because when some users read a colorful specification of the tool, they believe that it is very efficient.

The penetration via e-mail is also highly popular, but this technique is used most of the times by malware and ransomware, and not by adware. We hope that if you're reading this paragraph of the guide, Caster will be fully deleted from the laptop. If you choose the hand disposal, you should know how to understand that there is a virus on your machine.

The system boots really slowly. The majority of unwanted programs, during the installation, tune themselves to run at startup, and it doesn't matter if this tool is used once in 6 months - it will launch daily and consume your time and CPU resources. At the taskbar you will see all currently working programs, and choose the ones that are reliable and which are not.

Pop-ups are everywhere. If the amount of advertising increased notably - that is, most likely, virus.

The reliable software became slowly and unstable, computer reboots and turns off by itself.

You see lots of software that you've never seen before. If the tool appears on the PC without your permission - it is, nothing else than the adware.

Each of these red flags shows the virus threat, and the proper reaction is a way to prevent the damage. Be cautious on the Net, watch for the symptoms of infection on the PC, and it will be ready for any job.